A Mosque in the Porokhovaya Sloboda (Powder Settlement)
May 2
A two-storey wooden building of log structure on a brick basement. The architectural solution is based on the use of stylistic elements of the Baroque in combination with a simplified interpretation of individual details. The facade has 11 rectangular windows on the long axis; the central risalit (break) is shifted from the axis of symmetry and accentuated by a prismatic minaret towering above the roof. Arched windows are located on each side of it, the corners are decorated with pilasters.
The roof of the minaret is decorated with a low dome with a high spire (pinacle) holding a crescent; four small pinacles at the corners of the cornice are also decorated with crescents. The walls of the building and the minaret are sheathed with planks.
The author of the architectural watercolor is Ravil Sayarovich Aidarov
